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Almost all of ep 3 is about people making soup.

I'm finding this unwatchable. First, there is a LOT of bullying, and second, there's a long conversation between two characters that is entirely by text, which is dull even when you know what's being said, and dull plus frustrating when it's not subtitled. There is really nothing interesting about this so far - all it is is people sitting around in classrooms lecturing each other about studying more, or studying too much, and people bullying others for no reason that we're really given.

Can someone please start writing screenplays for the visual medium instead of adapting novels? You can always adapt the screenplay into a novel if you want. But what works for a novel does not always work on the screen. This is so boring it's hard to believe anyone thought this was a good idea.

On a petty note, the tall boy's hair is so bad it distracts me from paying attention to the incredibly long scenes where people are just sitting around talking about uninteresting things, as if it weren't hard enough to pay attention in the first place.

And then there's another long fujoshi scene. I actually think they're worse than bullies, treating gay romance like it's there for their entertainment.

And now another scene if people sitting at a table talking about schoolwork. Now, not joking, 35 seconds of someone sitting and staring at a basketball. This is actually the worst BL I've ever seen. At least So Much In Love was such an OTT trainwreck that it was fun to watch. This is like watching paint dry while you're having teeth extracted.

What a waste of good actors. Good and cute, too. BL is falling to a rut of endless, formulaic cliches and a fixed and small bag of tired tropes. At least there were no accidental kisses. So far.

Lately that trope seems to have declined, THANK GOD. Now we just need to get rid of squeeling fujoshis that have no respect for privacy and exploit the feelings of people for their own titilation. Not exactly incarnated devils - more like incarnated imps.

One of them - If YJ becomes convinced he can never have XS, I think he'd do something drastic. and that scene this week could be foreshadowing. I kind of doubt that, because this series is about where blurred lines are and I think the resolution of the storyline will be about what's best for YJ (hopefully serious treatment, maybe to the point of institutionalization) and XS both.

I suspect dad knows about XS already too and doesn't care, but we'll see.

That's fairly amazing logic on mom & YJ's part if you're right, and I have no reason to doubt you're right. "Dad will freak out that XS is gay, so if we can just show him that his brother is f@#$ing him, he'll be so much more comfortable with it!"

Thanks! The guy playing Kim is really attractive.

What I got from that is that you don't think it'sthink it completely fails to be funny at all and you don't like YYY. Is that what you meant? I'm not criticising, just asking because I'm not sure I understood you correctly.

If the statement were just a plain "don't watch this" then I would agree, but specific reasons were given, like "if you don't like A, then you won't like this show because it's full of A." That's what this site is for, right?

I was joking.

I assumed you were talking about the first thing on your list. I don't rememberthe second but my threshold for that is probably high because I'm old am not really affected by it. The first thing is serious, but it's a horror, and there is a warning at the beginning that this show might continue disturbing images. What do you feel should have been handled differently by the production? I'm asking because I don't know.

I'm staying at my parents for 2 weeks to help my mother take care of my father and I'm getting suicidal WITHOUT a psycho brother also living here, so while I can imagine XS moving in with his family, I can't imagine him surviving it. lol.

LC's face and eyes are always beautiful, but I agree - he's really expressive and I'm looking forward to him being in a scene where we get to see that particular emotion let loose for real!

You can't extrapolate a trend from one single example. I don't see what's odd about it at all or why supply & demand is strange to you - it's the way the economy works. If the demand for something is high, people make more. Why should they make any BL when bromance is just as popular? Watching all the bromances allows them to exploit the desire for BL without actually providing it. But BL audiences don't actually care about a show actually having BL in it as long as there are cute boys being cute to each other, so the situation is never going to change. As a gay man, it's hurtful to see who I am rejected yet exploited, and it's disappointing to see people who are allies not caring about that, but I've come to expect it.

It is explicitly R-Rated, but I would have put a more detailed warning than that - I'm not sure that rating means anything in many countries.

I think that's more about his cluelessness than anything else. He's proven capable of Titanic vs Iceberg level of cluelessness so far.

Speaking of Yong Jie's mother, YJ is a damaged 20-year old, but what's his mother's excuse? What a terrible mother! "Sure hon, go f@#$ your brother and marry him - whatever makes you happy!" She should have intervened in a major way a long time ago.

I guess it's tricky because she doesn't want to embarrass Xing Si if he's not out yet, but better to embarrass him than let him get hit unawares by the freight train barreling toward him. If she'd confided in him, he could have headed all this off and maybe they could have gotten Yong Jie the help he needs.

A LOT of therapy - I think it's serious enough that he may need to be institutionalized. But prison would just destroy him, or if it doesn't, he'll come out far more dangerous than he is now.

The boss. They were drawing a comparison between what non-consent looks like and a rapist's motivation - a desire for power or to satisfy lust through dehumanizing violence vs. Yong Jie's calculating manipulativeness motivated by misguided love and mental illness.

But with the boss that ridiculously evil, I think the point was obscured and the scene crossed into shock-value.

That's interesting - that may be the motivation for doing it that way.

Xing Si is very clearly interested in him - not just for the way he looks at him - the whole having sex with him was sort of a giveaway. But he'd have to be insane to pursue anything, and I don't think he has the slightest intention to. Beyond the reasons you mentioned, Yong Jie is not right in the head and is not even close to ready for a relationship. If Xing Si doesn't mind ending up handcuffed to a radiator in a basement somewhere, sure, he can go for it.

I can't see how they can be together unless there's a time skip at the end after Yong Jie has spend a couple of years in a mental hospital undergoing intensive therapy.

It was clearly a dream, and my interpretation was that it didn't happen (beside the clothing, he was confused about why he had the dream - if it had happened, that wouldn't be very confusing. But we don't know what really happened. I can't believe he did anything - it doesn't seem in his character, and that would actually be worse than what Yong Jie did because Mu Ren was under the influence of an actual rape drug and lack of consent is unquestionable.

I completely agree - that's what I was trying to say, but you put it more clearly.